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generation obama - new york city ..

2008-08-01T17:01:20Z

many of you know that i spend a good part of my "free time" working on sen. obama's presidential campaign. my efforts are focused with Generation Obama, the campaign's young professionals arm. below is a really cool widget that one member (sue you...

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three buckets in defense of google's dominance.

2008-07-18T15:48:29Z

in the world of search technology, the topic of google's dominance - and the future of that dominance - is often a topic of heated discussions. those arguments in defense of the top dog, can usually be dropped into one of three buckets: "they'r...

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barack op-ed in the nytimes.

2008-07-14T16:18:41Z

i know my posts have been far and few between lately. to be honest, they will continue to be sporadic for the time being. i hope to move to a new URL, and increase consistency during the fall. thanks for continuing to read... --- that aside, i r...

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overstanding the weak dollar, and why it ain't no good.

2008-06-05T20:52:17Z

yesterday (june 4th), fed chairman ben bernanke finally made a pitch for a stronger dollar. while we have been enjoying a bull market for a number of years, the dollar has lost considerable value since 2002 - nearly 40% - as illustrated by the us ...

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africa = usa + india + china + western europe + argentina + 460K sq km to spare.

2008-06-04T17:21:12Z

carpe diem tipped me off to a great map posted on strange maps. africa, in my opinon, remains the last true untamed frontier - it covers an enormous area, with tremendous natural resources and relatively untouched land, and many areas teeming with...

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help save my friend, michelle maykin.

2008-05-15T20:17:49Z

After not having posted for 7 days, I would like to divert from my typical modus operandi to write about something a little more personal and immeasurably more important. A dear friend of mine, Michelle Maykin, has been valiantly fighting leukemia...

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impact of cyclone nargis on the people and geography of burma.

2008-05-08T15:48:09Z

the impact cyclone nargis on burma's people as been tragic and it's impact on the geographic landscape has been tremendous. slight aside: burma is an east asian country, bordered by china, laos, thailand, bangladesh and india. the country is rule...

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the (wait / weight) (for / of) the consumer.

2008-05-06T20:40:06Z

it's no secret that the market has loved the fed's bailout of bear stearns as it supposedly removed the systematic risk of a large u.s.-based financial institution falling victim to it's own subprime lending blunders. you don't have to look farthe...

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an abbreviated discourse on mobile social networking.

2008-04-30T20:05:11Z

twitter + twittergram + flickr + twittersync = today's closest semblance to true mobile, social networking. with this combination: i have kept friends updated on my canvassing trip to pennsylvania with notes and pictures real-time from my ipho...

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sending a message w/ picture via twitter.

2008-04-30T20:03:28Z

i've become a big fan of twitter as of late, primarily after i setup functionality that lets me take a pic from my phone, attach a message to it, and have the message (with a link to the picture) twittered to all my friends. here's a recent exampl...

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